If you’re over extreme diets or exercise (especially if you’re in perimenopause or menopause), metabolism-boosting foods such as higher protein intake with amino acids and creatine is a better way to go.

This is especially important if you’re currently struggling with hormonal or perimenopause weight gain that you just can’t seem to lose!

The shared challenge that many women face has a lot to do with confusing and mixed messaging you’ve been exposed to for decades – from counting calories and viewing “thinness” as your marker of being healthy to pretty extreme fitness routines that overtax your system and increase the risk of injury.

So how should you eat and move to best prioritize your health?

And what intelligent questions should you be asking about worthwhile changes

For example – Do fasting benefits that people rave about online apply to you (or could fasting make things worse)?

Are the benefits of creatine for women true or overblown?

We’re answering these questions and more today to help you decide which metabolism-boosting foods to add and ways to see your pursuit of your best health with Liz Wolfe. Liz helps women 35+ silence decades of diet and health confusion to bring balance and beauty back. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified Personal Trainer; a best-selling author and podcast host; founder of the IdealAge brand of supplements; and creator of the Own Your Metabolism program and the Own Your Fitness app.

In This Episode:

• How your body changes as you enter your late 30s to early 40s
• Is it really harder to build muscle as you get older?
• How to think about metabolism + perimenopause weight gain
• Ways you can inadvertently mess up your metabolism
• Are there any fasting benefits for women?
• Carbs: Are they really bad for you?
• Critically important metabolism boosting foods
• Benefits of creatine
• Ditch the black-and-white thinking when it comes to perimenopause nutrition

Quotes

“It's very hard to build muscle because some of our key signaling factors that enable that easy building of muscle that we experienced in our 20s and probably early 30s, they're just not working as well.”

“Calories do come into play in certain ways, but metabolism is so much more than that and so much more important than that. It is the sum total of every chemical physiological reaction in your body that enables you to generate the energy that fuels everything that you do throughout the day.”

Links

Find Liz online | online | Instagram

Liz’s Daily Aminos Supplement

Healing Chronic Skin Issues with Clinical Nutritionist & Skin Expert Jennifer Fugo on Balanced Bites Podcast

STUDY about perimenopause weight gain

STUDY: Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

Healthy Skin Show ep. 314: Is A High Protein Diet SAFE? (Or Bad For Skin Problems?) w/ Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

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Gut parasites can be so frustratingly tricky to get a clear answer whether you have them or not.

The topic of and how they impact chronic skin issues is a fascinating once, especially since it’s entirely possible to have parasites, but have NO gut symptoms.

Additionally, it can be quite difficult to get accurate test results.

So yes, it’s worth exploring a parasite and skin rash connection, even if you live in what’s considered a “first world country”.

Certain skin symptoms (like hives) can be a significant clue, while other signs of gut parasites infection are sneakier (like certain nutrient deficiencies).

Joining me to discuss all things gut parasites testing related is Jennifer Brand, MS, MPH, CNS. She’s a clinical nutritionist who helps babies and children with chronic rashes navigate the journey to healthy skin so they can enjoy a childhood free from disruptive skin symptoms. As one of the most trusted pediatric skin-focused nutritionists, Jen is passionate about helping families get to the root causes of the problem through her unique method called Conquer Your Child’s Rashes™.

In This Episode:

• Are functional stool tests an effective parasite test?
• Is microscopic stool testing a better for gut parasites?
• Pros + cons of blood testing for parasites
• How to test for pinworms + are they contagious?
• Crazy relationship between allergen cross-reactivity + parasites
• How to know if you have parasites (these are surprising!)
• Do babies always have GI issues if they have gut parasites?
• Could adults have a parasite and skin rash but NO GI issues?
• Relationship between biofilms + gut parasites

Quotes

“Often, if there is an H. pylori finding and it doesn't necessarily have to be flagged as high, if it's even detected, I consider that a problem. H. pylori often comes along with something parasitic happening.” – Jennifer Brand, MS, MPH, CNS

“Parasites move. They don't necessarily all stay in one spot. Some do live in the GI tract and just hang out there, but others can go to other organ systems.” – Jennifer Fugo, MS, LDN, CNS

Links

Find Jennifer Brand online | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok

LISTEN TO PART 1 OF THIS CONVERSATION → Surprising Skin Signs Of A Hidden Parasites-Gut Problem w/ Jennifer Brand, MS, MPH, CNS

GOT RASHY KIDS? Register for Jennifer Brand’s free training – http://www.ConquerYourChildsRashes.com

Healthy Skin Show ep. 213: Stool Testing Do’s + Don’t’s For Skin Rashes

Healthy Skin Show ep. 306: Parasites, Worms + Skin Rashes w/ Robin Foroutan, RD

Healthy Skin Show ep. 337: New Research On Gut Trigger For Chronic Urticaria Hives (And What I See In Clients)

Healthy Skin Show ep. 329: Crazy Eye Rash Trigger! Demodex Mites Treatment + Triggers w/ Dr. Carly Rose

Thinking about how to change your mindset might bring on eye rolls, but shifting how you view your annoying (or debilitating) symptoms can have a huge impact on your quality of life.

No one is spared from things in life that cause suffering. And yes, living with chronic skin problems, including Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW), can seriously damage your confidence and self-worth.

I’ve often heard from clients that how their day will go is dictated by what their skin will decide to do. And while I understand the challenge inherent to the unpredictability of your skin, allowing external factors like your skin to have such enormous control over your mindset and daily experience sets you up for failure.

And with time, you likely will start to feel victimized by your skin (and other symptoms) and rather powerless.

Joining me to discuss mindset growth, healthier emotional habits, and more is Brad Bizjack. Brad is a personal development expert and a master mindset strategist who has a decade of experience in igniting human potential. His mission is to awaken individuals to their limitless possibilities and empower them to create the extraordinary success and freedom they deserve no matter their circumstances or health.

After working with 60,000 people, Brad is renowned for his ability to shatter mediocrity and inspire profound, lasting change. He excels in uncovering the limiting beliefs and toxic thoughts that lurk in the shadows of the mind, unlocking the doors to unprecedented achievement and fulfillment.

In This Episode:

• Stories you tell yourself that DESTROY your mindset growth
• What exactly is mindset?
• How to change your mindset (that’s more effective)
• When you allow your skin to dictate how you feel
• Strategies to create an open mindset aligned with healing
• The formula for happiness

Quotes

“You've had worthiness since the moment you were born. No skin condition, no amount of results, no success, no anything will ever make you more worthy than you already are. Never. And if you think that for some reason the way your skin looks makes you a better or worse person, or more enough or less enough, you're giving your personal power away to something that should not be dictating how you live your life.”

“There are gifts in every bit of negativity you could ever experience, because contrast creates clarity.”

Links

Find Brad Bizjack online | Instagram

JOIN ME → Sign up for the Success Accelerator challenge

Healthy Skin Show ep. 131: Mindset: What To Do When Nothing Seems To Help Your Rashes